Legumes are a major constituent of vegetarian diets and alleviate malnutrition because they are protein-rich and easily digestible. Moreover, a legume-based diet is much more sustainable than a meat-based diet. Recent research has disclosed major advances in legume agriculture and biotechnology, leading to improved health benefits from nutrients, antioxidants, polyphenolic phytochemicals, phenolic acids, flavonoids and tannins. This book reviews bioactive compounds and their applications, and conventional breeding and biotechnology for legume sustainability and nutritional enhancement.

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Dr. Praveen Guleria is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India. Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious Bharat Gaurav Award by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards. Dr. Vineet Kumar is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He has worked in different area of biotechnology and nanotechnology in various institutes and universities in India namely, Panjab University Chandigarh, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India, CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology and Himachal Pradesh University. He has published many articles in these areas featuring in peer-reviewed journals. He is also serving as editorial board member and reviewer for international peer reviewed journals. He has received various awards like Dr DSK-postdoctoral fellowship, senior research fellowship and best poster awards.** Dr. Eric Lichtfouse** is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. He is the author of the book Scientific Writing for Impact Factor Journals, which includes an innovative writing tool: the Micro-Article.

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Preface
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Legume Biotechnology; Dibyajit Lahiri, Moupriya Nag, Amrita Jasu, Bandita Dutta, Ritwik Banerjee, Dipro Mukherjee, Sayantani Garai and Rina Rani Ray
Chapter 2. Legume Derived Bioactive Peptides; Pragya Tiwari, Anjani Devi Chintagunta, Vijaya R Dirisala and N.S. Sampath Kumar
Chapter 3. Novel Dietary and Nutraceutical Supplements from Legumes; Savita Budhwar and Manali Chakraborty
Chapter 4. Antioxidant Profile of Legume Seeds; Balwinder Singh, Jatinder Pal Singh, Amarbir Kaur, Amritpal Kaur and Narpinder Singh
Chapter 5. Application of Legume Seed Galactomannan Polysaccharides; Harikrishna Naik Lavudi and Sateesh Suthari
Chapter 6. Legumes as Preventive Nutraceuticals for Chronic Diseases; Abdelkarim Guaadaoui, Meryem Elyadini and Abdellah Hamal
Chapter 7. Legume Aymbiotic Interaction from Gene to Whole Plant; Kaouthar Feki, Faiçal Brini, Moncef Mrabet and Haythem Mhadhbi
Chapter 8. Optimizing Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis in Smallholder Agroecosystems; Morris Muthini, Richard Otieno Awino, Kibet Charles Kirui, Kipkorir Koech, Abdul Alhaji Jalloh and Ezekiel Mugendi Njeru
Chapter 9. Transformation of Agricultural Breeding Techniques using Biotechnology as a Tool; Ekta Khare and Pallavi Singh Chauhan
Chapter 10. Genetic Transformation to Confer Drought Stress Tolerance in Soybean (Glycine max L.); Phetole Mangena